Community Health Partnerships

Community Health Partnerships (CHPs) were established by NHS Boards following the guidance set by the National Health Service Reform (Scotland) Act 2004. CHPs provide focus for the integration between primary care, specialist services, and social care, and ensure that local population health improvement is placed at the heart of service planning and delivery. CHPs will achieve these goals by linking clinical and care teams, working in partnership with Local Authorities, voluntary and other stakeholders, and actively involving the public, patients and carers. CHP boundaries are co-terminous with Local Authority boundaries or sub-divisions thereof. CHPs have agreed standard names and codes which follow the Scottish Government's standard naming and coding convention. The standard code prefix is S03. Boundary or name changes require ministerial approval, through the advice of the dataset owner (Primary and Community Care Directorate) and relevant NHS Board, and are processed by the Scottish Government Geographical Information Science and Analysis Team (GI-SAT). Currently, there are 34 CHPs defined across Scotland.



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